Cake Decorating Forum

I use royal icing, but have also used gum glue and buttercream. Anything which is edible and tacky can be used.

I would say never put real flowers or silk flowers directly into a cake. It doesn't seem nice at all and apart from some real flowers which may be poisonous, even silk stems have been 'somewhere' bef ...

the flowers look like like they have been made with small blossom cutters possibly out of gum paste. Though they are quite hard to see, so they might have been piped with RI.

I agree with Merissa, ...

You could always set the tiers towards the back of the cake instead of putting them in the center.
This will give you quite a bit more room at the front of the cakes and just around the sides.

My ...

You can also use confectioners glaze apparently. Dip your brush into the glaze and gently brush over the cake. I think it leaves it looking slightly shiny though.
I've never tried this, but I read ...

So, does that mean white choc will be harder to make into ganache?

I have milk choc to make into ganache soon (which I have done before) and also I have to make a white ganache, which I haven't tri ...

Thanks for these suggestions. Good thought about maybe having 2 bags and heating over hot water.

Would ganache set in time if I piped this the evening before it was needed?
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anyone?

I have a two tier chocolate wedding cake in a couple of weeks, top tier white choc, bottom tier milk choc, stacked.

Around the top tier the bride wants piped 'squiggles'! Kind of lots of scrolls, ...

You can make flowers with fondant, but gumpaste is better.

It is a stronger paste which can be rolled ultra thin to get realistic petals and is easier to work with.
Gumpaste will also set hard, ...

Are you making the fondant much bigger than is needed?

I usually roll the fondant quite thick almost 1/2 inch thick, but just under an inch shorter than is needed. Place the fondant over and beg ...

I think it looks great. Smile

Cakes like this are special because you will not get this anywhere else!

Depending on what sort of wood effect you are after, one way to make it look 'woody' is to roll a crumpled up bit of foil over the fondant.

This gives a kind of wood bark effect, once its dried, mi ...

If its a round cake measure around the cake and the height and roll a piece of fondant to that size. The buttercream will make the fondant stick to it.
If its a square cake you can still do it the s ...

I've put fresh flowers on a cake, but I always use a posy pick. I tape the flower stem with green florist tape, then insert that into the pick which is in the cake.
I wouldn't want to push a stem i ...